Vernon Butler serves as defense and intelligence business unit lead at Grant Thornton, with responsibility for that organization’s business development activities. He previously served as a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and led that firm’s U.S. Navy and Marine Corps strategy and organization business. Butler’s career includes roles such as Deloitte Federal Optimization executive, BearingPoint Office Enterprise […] More

Grant Thornton has added new hires Joe Tria, Laura Sue D’Annunzio and Tracy McShane-Wilson to its “People and Culture” leadership team, where they will work on the recruitment and development of the company’s human resources. The company said Thursday Tria and D’Annunzio will work from the Chicago office, while McShane-Wilson will be based in Dallas. “Joe, Laura Sue and Tracy […] More

A new ABI Research report has projected the biometric security and surveillance industry to reach $26.8 billion in revenues by 2020. The report notes that biometric technologies have begun to attract consumer and banking markets in addition to strong market adoption in law enforcement and government applications, ABI Research said Thursday. ABI Research also reports […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has announced the roster of its board of directors for the trade association’s 2015-16 fiscal year. NVTC also announced Tuesday the election of 27 new and returning board members, and 16 three-year-term members to the board. Officers of the board of directors include: Chair: Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of Inova Center for […] More

Doug Lane is CEO and president of Capgemini Government Solutions. He brings more than three decades of experience in information technology, practice leadership and management consulting to the subsidiary of Capgemini North America. Lane previously worked as a partner at A. T. Kearney for nearly two years before joining Capgemini. He spent three years as a […] More

Smartronix will lead a team comprising of Booz Allen Hamilton, SRA International and Conscious Security to manage a public key infrastructure for the U.S. Marine Corps. The consortium will support applications, digital certificates, fielded systems and registration authority processes in the military branch’s PKI program, Smartronix said Tuesday. Hollywood, Maryland-based Smartronix maintains a portfolio of […] More

Dan Gutierrez, vice president of mid-Atlantic operations at MacAulay-Brown, has been promoted to VP of operations for the Dayton, Ohio-based company’s national security group. MacB said Monday it also named Napoleon Stewart director of military intelligence programs and appointed Donald Chaney director of intelligence community programs within the national security programs division. Gutierrez will be […] More

A MarketsandMarkets study reports that the cybersecurity market will reach a value of $170.2 billion by 2020 due to the continued evolution of cyber threats and the corresponding increase in strictness of government cyber regulations. The company said Wednesday the market will grow from $106.3 billion in 2015 at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 9.8 percent, with […] More

Barbara Humpton became chief operating officer of Siemens Government Technologies — the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal subsidiary — in December 2014 after three years as head of business development for the organization. The 25-year GovCon sector veteran and senior vice president at SGT has been with the subsidiary since its start in 2011 and is also a veteran of Booz […] More

Eight companies with headquarters in Fairfax County, Va. — including four government contractors – have been cited on Fortune magazine’s “Fortune 500” list for 2015. Based on 2014 revenues, the GovCon firms named to the magazine’s list are General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Computer Sciences Corp., and Booz Allen Hamilton, the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority said Thursday. Gerald L. […] More

Dave Rey is the executive vice president of sales for salesforce.com‘s North American public sector business and leads the sales team’s efforts for that region. He previously served as head of the public sector infrastructure business at Oracle, where he held leadership roles for the technology and applications federal software business during his 17 years with the company. He has also […] More

Teresa Bozzelli leads Sapient‘s U.S. public sector arm — Sapient Government Services — as president and brings a 20-year background in technology and strategy to her role at the company. Her career includes time at IDC Government Insights, an organization she founded and served as chief operating officer for, and as a vice president at Booz Allen […] More